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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:45:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sujan Swearingen <whisper@seinc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970311114030.2548N-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19970311132133850.AAA1721@sujan>

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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Sujan Swearingen wrote:

> How can I found out information on the use of the FIPS utility?  I want to
> Install FreeBSD on my machine as safely as possible.  I do not have any
> back-up utilities but I can't afford to lose any volitile data.  FreeBSD
> warns that  it may destroy some disk information.  I do not want this to
> happen.  I would appriciate any suggestions.

Ugh.  You should really find a way to back up before doing this if there
is information you don't want to loose on the disk.  There is always the
potential for some sort of distaster.

You can find information on FIPS at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html, or the FIPS.DOC file in the
source distribution in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/src or
something like that (ftp.freebsd.org isn't responding at the moment so I
can't check).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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